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The phrase "a closed store" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a retail establishment that is not currently open for business.
Example: "After driving around for an hour, we finally found a restaurant, but it was next to a closed store."
Alternatives: "an empty store" or "a shut shop".
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Then I remember that we're the ones sitting outside a closed store in the middle of nowhere on a freezing winter's night.The restaurant where we eat dinner was started in the early 1970s by a Julliard-trained session pianist who got tired of travelling.
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She walks from Dr. Mason's office to the dancing studio of Madame Arlette LeMoyne, over a closed Woolworth store.
When others recognized Valve's potential strategic vulnerability to a "closed" Windows store, they allocated some time to that issue.
Despite the late hour, the two teenagers -- both dark skinned -- met in a well-lit area outside a closed food store.
The 34-year-old mother of two stood today in front of a closed liquor store as the sound of a church choir wafted into earshot.
A small, bent man in a trench coat stands on a rain-soaked street in the middle of the night, staring at a closed liquor store as if it were a mirage.
LETTER FROM MOSCOW about fashion in Russia... Writer visits the Christian Lacroix boutique, the Gianfranco Ferre Studio boutique, as well as a closed bluejeans store called Big Star, nearby... Describes fashion in the Soviet Union...Over the years, foreign friends — mostly Americans — were always shocked by the idea that Russians might take any interest in fashion.
Moments like the casual exchange with an older white man, a regular guy, whose pregnant wife desperately needs to use the bathroom of a closed convenience store.
When Frank the hotdog prowls the closed store at night for answers, he bumps into the Imperishables – a bottle of Firewater and a Twinkie – a kind of unofficial clergy of the foodstuffs.
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